Re: [Tinycc-devel] TinyCC's future

[Peter Fröhlich]

Hi all,

On Apr 9, 2005, at 15:20, Neil Bradley wrote:

> I had been told at one time that anything beyond x86 was not in TCC's 
> future. That got me thinking - what is the intenet on TCC's future? 
> It's an honest question, not meant to flame or insult. I feel it's a 
> sleekly designed compiler with a potentially bright future - something 
> to rival the albatross that gcc has become. What it's ultimate goal?

I don't know what the "official" future of it is, but I just approved a 
10 week student project in which they're going to try to make it into a 
PPC compiler under OS X. Should be interesting, I am sure it has not 
been designed for easy portability...

If a new platform can be added in this short timeframe, it would 
probably be a good idea to take the experiences my students will 
accumulate and then decide whether it's worth the effort to try to 
extend tcc into a cross-platform compiler. I am sure it would become a 
little more complex in the process, but probably nowhere near as 
bloated as GCC.

Just my $0.02,
Peter

PS: Are there other ports of tcc that I didn't find on my cursory 
search?
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